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The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-11
EIGHT MEN KILLED BY AN EX
PL0SI0N.

TYRONE, Pa, June 4.
A delayed explosion occurred at the
Cambria Iron Company's stone quar-
ries, at Birmingham, three miles east
of this place, at 2 o'clock this after
noon, resulting i'll the death of eight
men and seriously injuriDg n other.
Preparation had been made during the
morning for a big blast, six kegs of pow
der having been used in iilling the
holes. At noon the fuse was at
tached and lighted. and before the
men returned from their dinners a
partial explosion took place. Thinking
that the powder had all been burned,
the men went to work boring
out, reflling, and tamping the holes for
another blast. Suddenly and without
warning a ~thunderOus boom was
heard. 1t was Immediately followed
by the fall of a great mass of rock. A
moment later and the quarry contained
the headless and dismembered bodies of
a number of dead men, while others
horribly mangled and dying lay scat
tered about on top and beneath the
locks.
Assistance and medical aid were m
mediately summoned frola this place,
and the wounded were properly and
promptly cared for. Six were killed
outright, one died while being carried
from the quarry, and n died q few
hours later. Tie list Of dead is as fol.
lows: Clarence Stewart, foreman,
married; John Rolf, married; Harry
Noe, IS, single; Alexander Myers.
married; Emanuel Soldiers, married;
George Weiser, married; Jacob Shaen-
felt, married; two HuAgarlans, whose
names are unknown. Noel Warner
was badly cut about the head, but Will
recover, Six of the dead were Ameri-
cans, and were residents of Btrming-
ham.
ALTOONA, Pa, June 4.-The scene
OF the disaster at Birmingham VAS WIS.,
tied to-day by thousands of people from
all the surrounding towns. Five OF
tie victims, Weiser, Myers, Soldiers,
Rolf aud Stewart were buried to day.
Nole's body will be taken to Shaner's
Creek, and Shaenfeit's remains, which
were gathered up in a blanket, VIII be
sent to Ardenheim, Pa, for lnterment.
OF the injured Michael Warner, Hun
StlIIdu, 10 al tue hlGONlu lip0fitoi oAN
said to lie IN a dying condition. Tom
and George Miosto, H%ungarians; CD
sino Gasha, Russian, and Noel Warner,
all more or less hurt, or recovering.
The latter had a narrow escape from
instant death. lie was standing close
10 the drlllers when the explosion took
place. A Cotton stone fell Within ten
inches of him, but he was only slightly
hurt. The same huge boulder fell on
the bodies of Myers, Rolf aud Mole,
crushing them into AN unrecognizable
mass.
The following is the verdict of the
Coroner's jury
death was CEASED by an explosion
in the Cambria Iron CompaDy's stone
quarry, at Birmingham, Pa, supposed
10 be caused by the action Of the drill
on the rock, which drill was in the
hands of Messrs. Stewart and Soldiers,
who were endeayoring TO take out the
The tampiDg, and this caused IA spark
from friction to explode the powder
which was supposed to have exploded
befoTe.n
Within 400 feet of the scene of the
calamity are stored 1900 kegs Of pow
der and thousands of dynamite car
tTidges.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-11

lie that once is good Is ever great.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-11
NEARLY FIFTY MILLION BIBLES
Printed in 105 Languages and Dis
tributed Broadcast Over the
World.

The American Bible society has just
completed the results of its work for
the past year. 1t has Issued 977,G0j
volumes, besides 500, 0GJ i'll foreign
lands. This makes the total number
of Bibles issued by the society since its
organization in 1916, 1856 Psi. The
corrected proof of the last pages of the
New Testament in Ponape have been
returned from Micronesia, and the last
pages of the Muskokee Testament from
Okmulgee. The DakotanS want a new
edition in their language.
The American Bible society has
published the Bible in all the languages
of Europe, and in Reval-E stonIan,
Irish, Finnish, four dialects of Africa,
Gsebo-Mpongwe, Benga, Dtkele, Zulu;
in the languages OF the Sandwich Is
lands and Micronesia; in the Sluvic,
Bulgarian, Chinese and Japanese, and
in ten North American Indian dia-
lects, making forty.eight in all. Those
issued by the British and Foreign
Bible society makes the total number
of languages and dialects in which the
Bible is printed to-day by these societies
165. OF these the oldest looking are
the Irish, SIavonic, Turkish and Aver
bijan, or Tartar Turkish, Georgian,
Syrlac, Arabic, EthIopie, Tigre (Which
has a colon after every world Amharic,
Persian, Pail. Parl-Gujerati, Sindhi,
Cararese, Malaylan, Undu, OFissa,
Siamese, Burman, Tibetah, Karen,
Javanese, Coptic, Cree, Time and
Cherokee.
"How many translators do you
employ?" was asked OF the Rev. DR..
Alexander Mclean, one of ths secre-
taries.
"We have no trInslators. The
work is done by the missionaries, who
have to study the language OF the
country in which they labor. The
Bible society pays their expenses while
they are translating for u.s."
"How many Bibles have been printed
for the blind?"
"There were issued last year 207;
the entire number in forty years is
14,1S4. These are in the raised letter
form"
"What are the new Bibles for the
bllndPp
1--WE printed twelve years ago a
Bible in the New York point print,
and have printed the Psalms in the
same. and have now completed the
Gospel according to st. John"
"What is the point print2"
1T is a system of points that repre-
sent either separately or by combina.
alton the letters of the alphabet. The
old raised letters could not be readily
detected by fingers that had become
calloused by basket making, at which
many blind people work. The points
can be felt by the dullest finger"
The cost of supplying the Bible in
foreign lands is 500, 692.2 "a more than
Is received from them. One-nlnth OF
all the families visited by the agents
are destitute of the Bible.
1t took DR.. Eli Smith and DR.. Van
Dyck sixteen years to translate the
Bible into the Arabic. DR.. Schaufl9r
spent fourteen years on the Osmanlee
version. DIR. Schereschewsky fifteen
years to render the Old Testament
into the Mandarin Colloquial. DR..
Williamson and DR. Riggs spent forty
years on the Dakota version. One of
them estimates that he spent On an
average thirty minutes on every verse
he translated. Since Bible societies
were organized $50 versions have been
produced in about 200 languages and
dialects.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK

"A train on the New York and New
Haven Railroad, on the 81, a into a
number of italian laborers, near Ma
maroneck, killing n OF them and
severely injuring two others.
"A "cloud-burst Occurring during
u thunderstorm, at Oberl;n, Ohio, on
the afternoon OF the 9Th, caused
damage estimated at over $4,000.
William Murray, a saloon keeper
of Chicago, was arrested on the even
ing of the 4th on the charge of being
one of a gang of masked burglars
who, six years ago, broke INTO the
of Allan Fairbanks at Wheaton,
nd, by holding lighted matches to the
eet Of the inmates, compelled the dis
Csure of where $40 900 in Govern
.ent lolds were concealed. Murray,
Flew days ago, attempted to sell
some of the bonds.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-11
To a Young Friend.

Look down, brother youth, just below us
there lies
The blossom-linked kingdom of childish
delight
The valley of laughter, where soft baby eyes
Look long on the grass with no thought
of the height.
But here on the slope of the mountain of
life,
Lift eyes look away what ~ship-whiten-
ed seasi
What music of bugles tina call to the strlfei
What visions of vineyards impurple the
least
Do not waver; climb on base croakers
may pirate,
And murmur against the hard verdict Of
Time;
The vile with foul living carve out a foul
fate,
The idle must eat of the rue and the rime,
They may tell you the visions you witness
are air,
But mocking mist-seas, lands of ashes
and blight;
Believe them not, friend; to the pure life
is fair,
And well worth the living if lived but
Alright.
AhSh up AOOR away bAN oNN%NJ
eyes;
The marvels of dreams Gay seem seen
from the slope;
The marvels of fact lie there meath the
skies,
Then kindle and cherish the guess work
of hope.
We see with the heart; then keep the heart
clear,
Lest jaundice-hued vapors rise into the
sight;
From the base to the crown grander views
shall appear
If you feed but the bosom on unclouded
light.
All dreams are not true, but the a shall
be sweet,
If the heart be sweet that looks out
through the eyes;
A stair of clear gold shall bend down for
the feet
Then seek by a stair of gold deeds to
arise.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-11
A Canary's Four Notes.

In the song of a canary four notes
are recognized by dealers. and they car
tell by listening to it for II very few
minutes whether the bird is German OF
American. They are the water note.
which is a ripping, gurgling, attractive
bit of warbling like the murmur Of 8
rlll; the flute note, clear and ringing
the whistling note, of the same class.
but very much finer, and the rolling
note, which is a continuous melody
rising and falling only to rise again
1t is in the last named note that Ameri
can birds fail. They cannot hold it.
Another difference between the two il
that German canaries are night singer
they will sing until the light is extin
guished. But American birds pul
their heads under their wings witt
darkness.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
SUNDAY I'm a Western Town.

81. Rdtfi flDnetT-fftfss-
The present terminus of one of the
many railroads now stretching out from
the Pacific coast. from all accounts, is "a
lively place, where ''they worship six
days in the week and raise Cain on Sun
day" A gentleman from Rockford, ILL.,. ,
who spent last Sunday in this place, tells
some great yarns of his experience there.
He says: 1.-The claim of the Sabbath is
not known there; 1900 abnormally
healthy residents and the cowboy COM
munity will not permit it. There are
forty-seven saloons in the place. Last
Sunday while l was there, some twenty
five cowboys. armed cap-a-pie and
mounted, rode into the town. Plug hats
being scarce targets, they hit on a
novel method to raise the wind. They
collected by force into one group all of
the sOiled doves, rounding them up as
they would cattle When woman
stepped out of the ranks she was lassOed,
Just as the boys would handle a cow,
and brought back. Then they were
driven through the main streets to the
White Bear saloon and loaded with beer.
This diversion growing wearisOme, they
were paraded through the streets until
they were ready to drop through exhaus-
ton. The night wound up with the kill
ing of man. 1t was the most beastly
Dissertation of the Sabbath l ever met
with. Everybody enjoyed it except the
girls, but their feelings We're not ques-
toned
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
Washington Real Estate Specui atoms.

Baltimore sun, Washington Dispatch.
The speculation in suburban property
here is assuming large proportions.
farms, which only a few years since
could scarcely be sold at any price, have
been disposed of by the foot are absolute
ly marvellous. Fabulous stories are
told of the profits made by this or that
syndicate or large individual operations
i'm selling by the foot what was
bought by the acre. One lady of
large wealth, recent acquisition to
Washington society, and who has gone
deeply into suburban property, is popu-
larry credited with having cleared 800
900 in the last three months. 1t is to be
expected that statements of this charac-
ter will naturally be more or less eXag-
gerated, but it is very certain that the
early birds are gathering in the worms
very fast. Some of the largest operators
in real estate here, both in the city and
country. are ladies'; in fact al
most every woman that can get
two or three thousand dollars together
is rushing down with it to the real estate
brokers and begging them to turn it over
quick. Everything looks lovely Just
now, but the day is bound to come wheLi
the bubble will burst and the shorn
lambs will moan and blest to no purpose.
Investments in city property in Wash
ingtOn cannot be otherwise than good
when made with any reasonable degree
of Judgment. but the suburban craze
now raging is an absolute delusion.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
Sulliyan's Troubles.
New York Herald.


NEW HAVEN, May 23.-Horace Wall,
the proprietor of the New Haven opera
house. has an idea that the Chief of Po-
lice Charles +. Bollman, has been too
severe. For two or three days the town
has been billed for the Sullivan combina-
ton, and the authorities of this city are
following the e Iample of those of Roch-
ester, and the Chief has refused a Ii
cense. Pat Sheedy, Sullivan's business
manager, was in town to-day arranging
for their appearance on Wednesday
evening. He visited many of the AL
dermen, who are all in favor of allowing
the show, and they think there is moth
ing Objectionable in it. Mr.. Sheedy saw
Mayor Samuel A. York, who told him
that he was perfectly willing to have
the show licensed, and expressed him
self to the effect that license ought to
be granted.
The Board of Aldermen. at a special
meeting tonight, considered the matter
of giving the Sullivan combination Ii
cense. 1t was necessary, under the cir
cumstances of the chief of police having
refused to grant a license. that the AL
dermen should unanimously consent.
After considerable debate, five of the
Aldermen refused to vote in favor of the
petition, saying that New Haven could
well afford to get along without Slug
ger Sullivan, as they expressed it. The
exhibition will be given without the
sparring. There is considerable feeling
over the matter
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27

She was the most beautiful mare
have ever seen. of pure Maid blood,
gray. with flea bitten spots, eyes too
large for her head. nostril thin and ex-
pandcd. the throat of n game cock. the
hair of her name and tail SO fine and
soft that the most beautiful woman
might have been proud of such a texture,
and her SKIN so thin and soft that the
thorn bushes through which l rode her
used to tear it; and after many of my
runs through the jungle l have had her,
bleeding from the thorns, looking as if
she had leen practiced upon with a light
sabre. She WAS what you would con-
slider in England . pony, IA hands IL
inches high: but she was as broad almost
as Il Gray horse. and her tail was set up
SO high that as she moved about her
loose box YOU could, stopping. walk be-
tween it and the ground. Her feet were
black and hard, and tho tendons below
her hooks and knees were like harp
striIIGl. Adj 60 this thai her head was
SO lean that you might have boiled it
without obtaining any flesh from it. and
you have picture of what this desert
born mare was.-Maj. Shakespeare.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
A PrOfane Young Woman.

The Waterbury Comm american, in
an editorial on the Indulgence of mild
profanity by fashionable young women
of New York, relates strange story
about Hartford belle who was addicted
to the same practice. In Hartford, y
says the american, there lived, not
many years ago, a very charming Young
girl. who was a belle of one of the best
social sets of that city, and in whom,
nevertheless, was tolerated by everybody
the constant use of language more than
bordering on the profane. Nobody
thought anything of it in her. 1t was
Miss ", you know. Well, at a certain
ball in Hartford. it CHANGED that Miss Y.
was waltzing with a student from Yale.
who was not aware of her popularity.
She stopped him suddenly in the middle
of the dance, put her hand to her head
and exclaimed: ''D-n my back hair,
It's coming DOWN. Her partner drew
himself up in BOwery fashion, cooked
his head to one side and replied, with a
slow swagger: The-hell-yOu-say
The reproOf was sufficient. Miss Y, did
not swear again that evening""
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
Ladies' of Lima,



The ladies of Lima are all eyes. They
have the reputation of being, as a class,
the most beautiful in the world, and
meeting them on the way TO mass in the
morning, or shopping later in the day,
one can see how they obtained 1T; but
knowing them in their home the opinion
changes, and you conclude after calm
reflection. that they are not So pretty as
the women of New York. 1t is the
manta which they wear in such a CO.
quettish way. that gives them their rep
utation for beauty, for it conceals every
feature except their bewitching eyes and
lovely olive complexion. No matter
how ugly her mouth and her nose is; no
matter how high her cheekbones or large
her ears; nc matter whether she is as
scrawny as n scarecrow or as bald as a
bat. manta will make a woman with
pretty eyes look handsome, and, like
charity, covers multitude of sins
This garment, which is peculiar To Peru,
and which is worn by ladies of all ages
and social positions. from the President s
wife To the laundress who comes after
your linen, is a sort of fOster-sister To
the mantilla of Spain. 1t is usually of
crepe from China, and costs anywhere
from $40 to $500, according To it's quail
Ity
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27

The Stand of Noumia has what l. ac-
knovle,lged to b. the hest orchestra in the
southern hemisphere, and is composed
entirely of convicts. Its complement
averages about 120 pieces, and the whole
i, under the direction of a former leader
in the Grand opera. who is doing life
time" for murder. Twice a week-on
Thursdays AMI Sundays-the band plays
three hours in the public square, AMI all
the officials and business element of the
cl-,ital make use of the time and place as
a sort If clearing house for their social
obligations. The hand plays music of a
III IA Glass. and rs, in 1884, Noumia was
the only Ilacc in the southern world
where Wagner's music could he heard.
many Iiu..ic lovers came from Australia
expressly Tn hear it.-Boston Transcript.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
Making Hay i'm Rainy Weather.

A Clay County farmer, writing over
the nom de plume of Cracker" in the
Spring, of Green Cove, makes the fol-
lowing suggestions on hay making dur
ing our rainy season:
have seen used what / think would
prove a good thing to our Florida farm
ers for curing hay. 1t is simple, not ex-
pensive, and makes or cures hay in rainy
weather well. 1t consists of a platform
for each bunch or cock of hay and a
square of oiled muslin, and is made after
this style: Have two pieces one and a
half by four inches, five feet long; set
these on edge and nail ON Stats of inch
stuff across, also five feet long, making
a square of five feet on which to make
the haycock. Get heavy muslin from
two to three yards wide, cut this in
squares, bind it by sewing in a small
cord around it. When enough are ready
for the amount of hay the farmer wishes
to make at a time, dip in linseed oil and
run through clothes wringer and hang
out smooth to dry. These are fastened
on by legs at each corner, which are
stuck in the ground. Well made and
cared for they will last lifetime. They
are used to keep off the dew and rain in
rainy weather. Let the hay cure as
much as possible, but before the shower
comes, have all the hay that Is cut put
on these platforms and cured.
l always kept one extra bottom for
changing over on, and in very wet spells
changed between showers, if the hay
was getting too warm, by laying beside
the cock that was to be changed an extra
bottom then lift forkful at a time I'M
til all is aired, cooled and made into a
new bunch, then cover. In this way
one can make good hay in bad weather
without loss, and all stock prefer hay
made i'm this way.
Hay must not be allowed to get too
warm, as that will spoil it, but it will
hardly need changing oftener than
every forty-eight hours 1t also keeps
off the hot sun from drying the life out
of it, and hay made in this way is also
preferable, especially clover.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
THE DAILY NEWS
TT WILL BE ALL LIGHT THERE,

A Pathetic story of Home Life that Has
Sadness i'm Every Line.
Detroit Free Press
Children are happy counselors. They
are to our hard, practical, everyday lives
what the stars are to the heavens, or the
flowers and birds to the earth.
All what would the world be to us
III the children were more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before
There is family in this city who are
dependent at this moment upon little
child for all the present sunshine of their
olives.
A few weeks ago the young wife and
mother was stricken down to die.
1t was so sudden, so dreadful when the
grave family physician called them to-
gether in the parlor, and in his solemn,
professional way intimated to them the
truth-there was no hope,
Then the question arose among them,
who would tell her?
Not the doctor! 1t would be cruel to
let the man of science go to their dear
one on such an GRAND.
Not the aged mother, who would be left
childless and alone.
Nor the young husband, who was
walking the floor with clenched hands
and rebellious heart.
Not-there was only one other, and at
this moment he looked up from the book
he had been playing with, unnoticed by
them all and asked gravely.
us my mamma dom to die?'
Then, without waiting for an answer
he sped from the room and up stairs as
fast as little feet would carry him.
Friends and neighbors were watching
by the sick woman. They wonderingly
noticed the pale face of the child as he
climbed on the bed and laid his small
head on his mothers pillow.
Mamma" he asked, in sweet, car
essing tones, sis YOU 'fraid to diel'
The mother looked at him with swift
intelligence. Perhaps she had been
thinking of this.
-you-Charlie:" she asked
family
Doctor an papa an gamma-every-
body" he whispered. Mamma, dear
little Mamma, doan' be 'fraid TO die, ill
you?"
mo, Charlie" said the young mother
after one supreme pang of grief; mo,
mamma won't be afraid.
jus shut your eyes in e dark, MANI
ma, teep hold my hand, an when you
open EN-, mamma, it'll be all light
there"
When the family gathered awe-stricken
at the bedside, Charlie held up his little
hand.
s'Hu-s-h. My mamma doan to sleep.
Her won't wake up here any mOre!
And so it proved. There was no
heart-rending farewell. no agony of part
ing, for when the young mother woke
she had passed beyond, and rs baby
Charlie said, lit was all light there"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
A Self-Revolving Dip-Net.

a very remarkable invention or dis
covery has been made by Mr. Joe Reyn-
olds, of Hawkinsville. He has now at
work in the river at this place a self-re-
volving dip-net. and it not only dips up
the fish but puts them in a basket sus-
pended under the net. The net revolves
day and night, and occasionally a fine
redhorse, or Dream, or shad, or other
fish. is dipped out of the stream and
slides gently into the basket.
Mr.. Reynolds caught $50 worth of fish
from March 12 to April is. His machine
works itself without n cent of expense
A few mornings ago he went to the net
and found that it had caught during the
night and dropped into the basket six
redhorse, five white shad, four river carp
and a catfish
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-27
Power of the Industrial School.

No one panacea of any reformer fits
the case or can alter existing conditions.
Only what man own soul sees as good
and wills 20 POSSESS is of faintest value to
him. NO attempt at cooperation can help
till the worker secs its power and use and
is willing 10 sacrifice where sacrifice is
necessary; to vorI, and to wait in pa
tience- Such power is born in the indus
trial cc&aol il its largest sense; tho school
that trains heart and mind Us well as eye
and hand, and makes the child ready for
the best work its measure of power can
know.-H-len Campbell.